JAMES FAURE WALKER
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    • 2018 THE CLAIMS OF SOCIAL ART, FORTY YEARS ON
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    • 2006 RIVER GODS : PAINTING THE DIGITAL RIVER
    • 2004 THE RECKLESS AND THE ARTLESS: PRACTICAL RESEARCH AND DIGITAL PAINTING
    • 2002 WORKING WITH COMPUTERS
    • 1999 FINDING OUT HOW TO PAINT
    • 1997 LEARNING THE THEORY
    • 1995 THE OUTSIDE INSIDE OF TECHNO ART
    • 1994 ART AND THE INTELLIGENT LUNCHBOX
    • 1980 CLYFFORD STILL, ARTSCRIBE
    • 1978 THE CLAIMS OF SOCIAL ART
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Portrait of artist, painter James Faure Walker, by Dulcie Faure Walker, 2013

James Faure Walker : CV

Book, ‘Painting the Digital River’, author James Faure Walker
‘Painting the Digital River’, 2006
James Faure Walker, founder and editor of Artscribe magazine in the 1970’s
Artscribe Magazine, 1976
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James Faure Walker, Member of The Royal Watercolour Society and 2013 Royal Watercolour Society Award winner
James Faure Walker, Member and eight times exhibitor at SIGGRAPH, USA
James Faure Walker, Member of  The London Group

JAMES FAURE WALKER

Born in 1948, James studied at St Martins (1966-70) and the Royal College of Art (1970-1972). Before integrating digital methods into his work he had already exhibited widely (the Hayward Annual 1979, a solo exhibition at Manchester’s Whitworth in 1985). He had been one of the founders of Artscribe magazine in 1976, which he edited for eight years. He exhibited eight times at SIGGRAPH in the USA, won the ‘Golden Plotter’ prize at Computerkunst, Gladbeck, Germany in 1998, showed at the DAM Gallery, Berlin, and featured in ‘Digital Pioneers’ at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2009. His book, ‘Painting the Digital River: How an Artist Learned to Love the Computer’, was published by Prentice Hall (USA) in 2006, and awarded a New England Book Show Award. He was one of the five English artists commissioned to produce a print for the 2010 South African World Cup. Till 2014 he was Reader in Painting and the Computer at Chelsea, University of the Arts. In 2013 he won the Royal Watercolour Society Award.

Critics have commented on the lyricism and exuberant colour of James Faure Walker’s paintings, surprising given that since the eighties computer graphics has been central to his work, alongside oil paint and watercolour. They have also mentioned his independent stand, using photos of pedestrians, birds, shops, at the same time as having developed an ‘abstract’ language. As Stuart Morgan wrote in 1985, “His doubt may lead to one of those careers which bridges older and newer practice, and which opens more doors than it closes”.  

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LATEST : December 2021
Instantloveland : Remembering 'Artscribe'

James Faure Walker, Felix & Spear Artist Catalogue

Instantloveland : Speed Limits : Digital Paint and Abstract Painting
James Faure Walker Artist Interview : ArtTop10.com
Instantloveland : 'Dubuffet, Drawing and Disorder'
Instantloveland : 'Tales From the Ochre Factory: Lumps, Ghosts, Cigars'

Watercolour by James Faure Walker
The Royal Watercolour Society :  A brief History
RWS : In The Studio with James Faure Walker
Interview with James Faure Walker

Cork Lined Rooms
Imperica - James Faure Walker
BSC : Going With The Flow
Lboro : Drawing And Technology
TDC Talk
 
The V&A : Computer Art
The Royal Watercolour Society
The London Group
Siggraph
DAM : Digital Art Museum
Hackney Wicked

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